Sean McKeon, Company Secretary and Head of Risk and Compliance, Dalata Hotel Group​
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Dalata first responded to CDP in 2018, a choice based on a recognition that we needed to start somewhere with our response to managing climate change risk and reducing our emissions. It was a good choice because it started conversations in various directions, at the board and among senior management, and set a baseline benchmark that was comparable against peers.
Inevitably we wanted to do better and were drawn to education in the quest for improvement. What started out as a reporting exercise fanned out into actions, leading to internal target setting that resulted in like for like reductions in group electricity consumption from 45.8 GWh (2019) to 41.4 GWh (2025) (9.7%), and gas from 78.4 GWh (2019) to 59.0 GWh (2025) (25.0%). |
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CDP’s structured disclosure framework helped translate granular, hotel-level data into a clear enterprise-wide view of energy consumption, efficiency trends and exposure to energy related risks. This has supported more informed decision making, particularly in the context of energy security, rising energy costs, grid constraints and evolving regulatory expectations.
By mid-2025 we had also developed an advanced carbon reduction strategy that was science-aligned and finance-tested with indicative capital expenditure estimates and a timetable. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step; CDP was our beginning. Sean McKeon, Company Secretary and Head of Risk and Compliance, Dalata Hotel Group Click for home Click next |
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